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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, written twenty years ago.

Amazing book with many nuggets in quite a few areas like managing, technology, production, military procurement...

Stalin's Keys to Victory

There is no doubt that a very important key to defeat of Nazi Germany was massive material pouring out of Soviet factories. The scale was a shock for Hitler and he...

PAM 20-202 German Tank Maintenance In World War II enriches that side of the story.


It is worth to point out that the peacetime logic of a centralized 'factory maintance' was obviously more...

After the fine Where Iron Crosses Grow (now pretty cheap with Kindle) I picked up Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front. So far it is pretty good.

Such a vast conflict within a 'world' war is so rich...

Berkshire was a mighty success in the last fifty year and any long-term shareholder's slice has become much more valuable. Two special letters were written by the Chairman and Vice-Chairman to look...

Anabasis by Xenophon. A gripping story told in a manner which won early praise and great fame. The narration feels quite modern apart from the long speeches, of which some are however rethoric...

Overall I agree but one has to put the issue in the context of ressources, especially manpower. One city was founded as a far away colony while the other established itself among the large Latin...